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 Acting Administrative Chair - Malcolm Spaull is an international
award winning filmmaker. His work has had theatrical release
and been seen on HBO, Showtime, The Learning Channel and other
cable distributors. Professor Spaull began teaching at RIT in
1980 and from 1985-1992, served as Chair of the Film and Video
department. From 1994 -1999 he headed The Center for Digital
Media @ RIT, which provided new media courseware and created
large scale interactive projects for Xerox Corporation and other
external clients. Recently he has returned to the School of
Film and Animation to teach and coordinate the School's graduate
program. He continues to produce and/or direct educational and
commercial videos for national and local organizations.
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Animation Chair - Stephanie Maxwell is an award winning
and California-born filmmaker who teaches a wide range of courses
in film, video, and animation. She has taught previously at
the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, American Universityin
Washington D.C., the San Francisco Art Institute, the University
of Vermont, and the University of South Florida. Maxwell curates
and presents film programs internationally, and she has taught
many specialized courses and workshops in the U.S., Europe,
Great Britain and Scandanavia. She is a cofounder of the ImageMovementSound Festival, an annual festival of multimedia works created by
students and faculty from the Rochester Institute of Technology
(image makers), the Eastman School of Music (composers and performers),
and the Dance Department at SUNY College at Brockport (choreographers
and dancers). Maxwell also directs SoFA's Visiting Artists and
Lecturers Program.
Stephanie's work can be seen on her web
site
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 Film/Video Production Chair - Jack
Beck has taught at Denison University and the University of Iowa, where he received his Masters degrees in Communication Studies, and Film & Video Production. Jack has also worked as a cinematographer, videographer, screenwriter, story editor, radio DJ, sound engineer, boom operator, and sound recordist. Jack continues to create new digital works, often collaborations with Eastman School of Music composers through the ImageMovementSound program. A work from 2001, Jon's Point, L.A., was screened on the CBS Jumbotron in Times Square, and was one of two American selections to the experimental program in the Dresden International Film Festival. In 2002, Jack went to Panama to shoot digital video of the courtship display of the Golden-Collared Manakin, and in 2005 he ventured north to the Hudson Bay to film polar bears.
Jack Beck's work can be seen on his web site
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 Asst. MFA Coordinator - Skip Battaglia is currently in production
for his 15th film. His films and animations have been honored
around the globe including Japan, England, Germany, Canada,
Netherlands, Portugal, Mexico, and Cannes. In addition, he travels
the world as a guest speaker and lecturer. In 1994-95 he received
a Fulbright-Hays Teaching and Research Grant to teach film animation
design and production at the Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico.
He has a Master of Science degree in Television-Radio from SyracuseUniversity
and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Philosophy from
Boston College. Professor Battaglia has been teaching a variety
of 16mm film production, animation, scriptwriting, and aesthetic
courses to undergraduate and graduate students at RIT since
1987.
Skip's work can be seen on his web
site
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Howard Lester 's many personal
films, including absurd comedies, documentaries, animations
and experimental work, have received over 40 national and international
awards. His professional background includes 18 years in Los
Angeles working in all aspects of film/video production, primarily
as editor or director, and three years on the motion picture
faculty of UCLA. Howard is currently on Sabbatical leave. |
Johnny Robinson specializes in drawn
character animation. After an initial career in live action
film making, he studied illustration and figure drawing at Syracuse
University. This led to free lance animation and work as an
animator in a small commercial studio. His work was produced
for commercial advertising, CD-ROM and educational television.
Besides animated characters drawn on paper, Johnny uses 2-D
computer techniques and is knowledgeable in stop motion. Johnny
still works in the field outside of the university environment.
His teaching experience includes Onodaga Community College,
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Duane Palyka His artistic career
has paralleled the development of computer graphics for two
decades: in the '70's at the University of Utah Computer Science
Department, which pioneered 3D development in computer graphics,
and in the '80's at the New York Institute of Technology Computer
Graphics Laboratory, which was the first to combine computer
graphics with conventional animation techniques. Mr. Palyka
received both a BS in mathematics and a BFA in painting from
Carnegie-Mellon University, and also received an MFA in painting
from the University of Utah. Duane worked for Industrial Light
& Magic, Apple Computer, Adobe Systems and taught at New York
Institute of Technology, University of Michigan, and San Francisco
State University.
Duane's work can be seen oh his web
site
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 Cathleen Ashworth has been using video
in her artwork since 1975. Her early work utilized video images
integrated into live performance art and dance. During the
1980s she produced numerous video installations that were
displayed in art galleries and museums. Her current work includes
both documentaries and experimental installation. She has
received numerous awards and grants for her innovative work
including an Artist Fellowship from the New York Foundation
on the Arts. Her work is in the collection of the Smithsonian
Museum of the American Indian. At RIT she teaches Documentary
and Experimental Workshop classes as well as classes in video
technology and digital editing. She is the faculty advisor
to RIOT TV, which is a weekly series showcasing student films.
Cat's work can be seen at her web
site
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Adrianne Carageorge Her professional
career includes both "real world" production experience as well
as over 20 years in higher education. She is an award winning
filmmaker whose political and documentary work has been broadcast
nationally. Prior to coming to RIT in 1992, she worked as a
political media producer on campaigns for president, senate,
congress, and local political office. She holds the Master of
Fine Arts degree in Film Production from Ohio University, and
a postgraduate certificate from LondonFilm School, England.
Dedicated to film education as a force for social change, she
has taught at Southern Illinois University - Carbondale, WV
State College, Rowan University. Her areas of expertise include
film / video production, scriptwriting, and film history/theory.
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Naomi Orwin
475-2711
asopph@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Naomi Orwin is a scriptwriter and journalist who has worked
in film and television. She was associate writer on the Lifetime
Series Our Group and lyricist for the award-winning children'
TV show Unicorn Tales. In Los Angeles, she represented the work
of several up and coming writers while working at a small literary
agency. An avid traveler, she has also worked in the recording
industry in London and the film industry in Israel, as well
as managing a series of cabaret singers in NYC. She has participated
in the women's committee of the WGA on both coasts and is a
founding member of the New York Coalition for Professional Women
in the Arts and Media, as well as sponsor of the Women Film
Project at RIT. She has a strong interest in the sources of
creativity, and has obtained a graduate degree in transpersonal
psychology to further her research in this area.
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Arnie Sirlin
475-5303
ansppr@rit.edu
Arnie Sirlin has been actively working in the film industry
for over 25 years - most of which have been spent in Hollywood.
His career has included feature films, television series, documentaries,
commercials and music videos. Projects that he's shot have resulted
in an Oscar nomination as well as 5 Emmy nominations with 3
wins one - one for cinematography. Documentary projects have
taken him around the U.S. and the world several times. Topics
have ranged from social issue to historical to sports. Clients
have included all major broadcast networks as well as The Discovery
Channel, TLC, A&E, HBO, and the BBC. As a Director of Photography
for television series, he established the visual style for The
Young Riders - a western for ABC and Parker Lewis Can't
Lose (Fox) - a comedy with radical camerawork. He is fluent
in both film and video production. |
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